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Re: backslash whitespace newline
* Mike Stump:
> On Oct 24, 2005, at 10:39 PM, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> Emacs in an xterm, from time to time.
>
> Yeah, I knew about that one, cutting and pasting from any full screen
> program running in a terminal emulator tends to be wrong. Tab
> characters are usually the first causalities, along with long
> lines. :-( I'd propose to encourage people submit bug reports
> against xterm/emacs/terminfo/termcap/curses if they care much about
> the issue. I think it might be possible to improve the situation alot.
There's a mitigating factor: If you past it into another Emacs in an
xterm of the same width, all lines are wrapped. This provides a
strong incentive to remove at least some of the trailing whitespace.